The is a
city ordinance
A local ordinance is a law issued by a local government such as a municipality, county, parish, prefecture, or the like.
Hong Kong
In Hong Kong, all laws enacted by the territory's Legislative Council remain to be known as ''Ordinances'' () ...
that requires businesses to prepare for a disaster in the
Tokyo metropolitan area
The Greater Tokyo Area is the most populous metropolitan area in the world, consisting of the Kantō region of Japan (including Tokyo Metropolis and the prefectures of Chiba, Gunma, Ibaraki, Kanagawa, Saitama, and Tochigi) as well as the pre ...
by stockpiling various
emergency supplies at their places of business. It requires them to keep three days' supplies on hand so that
commuters
Commuting is periodically recurring travel between a place of residence and place of work or study, where the traveler, referred to as a commuter, leaves the boundary of their home community. By extension, it can sometimes be any regular o ...
, particularly those who live far away, will not be forced by circumstances to walk home long distances in the event that the transportation systems are disrupted.
Drafted in the aftermath of the
2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
On 11 March 2011, at 14:46:24 Japan Standard Time, JST (05:46:24 UTC), a 9.0–9.1 Submarine earthquake, undersea megathrust earthquake occurred in the Pacific Ocean, east of the Oshika Peninsula of the Tōhoku region. It lasted approx ...
, it was passed on March 30, 2012 and came into effect on April 1, 2013.
[Tokyo Metropolitan Government Disaster Prevention websit]
企業の災害対策、帰宅困難者対策備蓄用品リスト
Retrieved October 8, 2014
References
Disaster preparedness
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